This is the diary of Bob the Monkey, a friendly little chap who went on a long journey to find his new home.

BoingBoing reports that Scientology is opening a “Super Power” training center in Clearwater, Florida. The Center will teach cult members who pay out how to enhance their powers of perception by using training techniques supposedly invented by founder and mediocre sci-fi hack L Ron Hubbard.

“Super Power uses machines, apparatus and specially designed rooms to exercise and enhance a person’s so-called perceptics. Those machines include an antigravity simulator and a gyroscope-like apparatus that spins a person around while blindfolded to improve perception of compass direction, said the former Scientologists…

Scientologist Ron Pollack, who donated $5-million to the Super Power fund after making millions in hedge funds

Hey peeps, just something linzi showed me thats really interesting, watch the following video and count the number of passes of the ball between people. Dont count the bounces, just the passes.
Comment with how many passes you count

Heres the page with the video on it, it uses a Java applet for some reason so make sure uve got that installed.

Go on, go count the passes

Now once uve watched the video and counted all the passes watch the video again without counting…

Bra SimThe world of the internet is a dark and myseterious place as many times i have observed. However, this is both Cool and Funny at the same time. Not content with allowing women to meerly be objects of facination when designing bras for sporty types these clever people (probably blokes) have created a Bra Simulator. Its technically advertising for a Sport Bra. You can go along and select your Cup size (A throu to FF&G) and then your level of activity from Light (Yoga) to Extreme (Horse Riding) all to be followed with a beautifully presented strip of modeled animations. A Noody one for the virtual blokes out there, a Bra’d version and a

I blogged many moons ago about a beautiful advert by Sony for their Bravia TVs. Its a stunning piece of work, 250,000 bouncy balls thrown down a San Fransico hill. Visit the Bravia Advert site for more information about how it was made and the music and downloads etc.
However, not to be outdone, and as an excuse for fun on multiplayer games, a group of BattleField 2 players recreated the advert in their own image. Snorken Productions are credited with making this, but i have no idea what that means, simply put, go and check it out, its very silly.
[ Bunny Hopping ] [ Sony Bravia ]

You know how it goes, batphone rings, “We need ur help Batman” off he pops to some arbitary room, twists a candle, presses a button, pulls a book from a shelf or all manner of other handy secret switches and bosh a door magically opens leading down into the inner sanctum of the cave. Unadulterated cool stuff. I personally think i’d be awsome to have a secret room/passages in my house, photo frame moves up to reveal a Biometric finger scanner which then twists a bookshelf around revealing my desktop computer study area. Handy or wot.
And guess what, I CAN! Thanks to the guys at hiddenpassageway.com you can buy urself all the bits and bobs needed to create your

Ten top reasons why geeks will make good fathers and thus should be coveted by all members of the female species as they are as valuable as gold laced with diamond. Heres an example:

1. LEGOS. The Geek is really more of a Man-Child than an adult. In their minds, they are still 10. They freakin’ still love to play with their legos, and have never grown up. I have one friend, WHO WILL REMAIN NAMELESS, that still has legos in his room. He doesn’t have kids. Just legos. Of course, my children love legos and Steve will lovingly spend hours playing legos with them.

The Other Reasons

Sounds a bit daft but bare with me. Its actually an experiment in Hive Mind reasoning. At a Las Vegas conference a demonstration of some clever computer vision was being shown. People in the audience had a paddle with Red on one site and Green on t’other. A camera picked up all the audience and software then drew an image of the members as a red or green pixel on the main theater screen. Good so far?
The game of pong was then tested, with the right side of the conference hall controling the right paddle and vica versa. If the number of red paddles shown was higher than the green the paddle moved up, otherwise down it goes. Aparently the

This is what happens when you get a bigass power distribution node that needs maintainace. You need to turn it off, but to do that you need to disconnect it all. Enter the biggestest and coolerest switch ive seen in operation yet. with half a million volts running along the thick steel of the bars that get opened the result is a beatiful lightning show that arcs about 20 feet into the air. What a cool job that must be

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I was wandering around Digg.com and fell onto two very cool tech demos. Proof o concept type stuff. The first is a screen which allows multiple touch contact with discreet handling. Ie, u can put more than one finger to the screen and itll happily cope. Theres a snazzy video demonstrating it all. Its very pretty and looks very powerful. The method it uses to actually work is actually suprisingly simple, called Frustracted Total Internal Reflection. Check out the video on its homepage : mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

The other demo is a Sony endeavour named Revolution or Data Tiles the basic principle